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[^]Quote: Samsung is using a new 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display that allows the phone itself to have a tablet-sized screen that can be folded to fit into a pocket. The main display is QXGA+ resolution (4.2:3), and when it’s folded, a smaller 4.6-inch HD+ (12:9) display is used for the phone mode. Samsung is using 512GB of Universal Flash Storage 3.0 (eUFS) for fast speeds, alongside a Qualcomm 7nm octa-core processor and 12GB of RAM. Samsung has even built two batteries for its Galaxy Fold, that are separated by the fold but combined in the Android operating system to represent a total of 4,380 mAh.
[^]Quote: Samsung put on a literal show on Wednesday, streaming the unveiling of its newest line of smartphones online for the world to see. The most startling new development in its line is the Galaxy Fold, a smartphone that literally folds into a tablet and back again, which would allow the user to view three apps at once, which is nothing compared to the Fold's six — yes, six — built-in cameras.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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When I first saw folding mobile devices I thought "That's just a gimmick" but having seen this I have changed my mind and think that these could fill that gap of not having to buy a tablet and a phone.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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But you can get a tablet and a phone for less than $2k.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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yeah, but they'd be separate devices. donchayno?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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My phone cost $40. I can get a Surface Go for $400 and still have enough left over to buy some Nike sneakers which don't work.
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Eventually perhaps. We're several generations away from that point though. Currently they're not just stupidly expensive, but to keep the fatness in check they're using a single fold which means either a squarish tablet screen, or an unreasonably wide and short phone screen. Getting reasonable aspect ratios in both modes is going to need a 3 or 4 panel folding setup. To avoid being fatter than a book that's probably going to require wireless everything (as in too thin for a USB port) and a major hit on camera optics; or one normalish thickness slice and several extremely thin ones. The latter opens the room for major bending problems. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I find it telling that Samsung itself doesn't mention the size or weight of the thing.
iPhone X is 174g, 7mm thick
Samsung S9 is 163g, 8.3mm thick
Huawei Mate X is 295g, 11mm thick
Samsung Fold is probably well over 300g, 17mm thick
That's getting silly chunky. I'm going to wait until a design comes out that actually makes sensible use of the technology: foldable and slim so it actually fits in my pocket, but then it folds out to be a nice, spacious size for use when seriously working.
I don't need 6 cameras. I don't need 3 screens. Just a front and back screen, with the back screen blank until I unfold it then it comes to life to extend the front screen. Best of both worlds. The camera will sit in the notch, natch!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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@ChrisMaunder These days, I don't even want pockets 
What I do want is an affordable two screen device about A3~A4 paper size that folds up. One screen OLED quality, the other lower-fi, or even e-ink. Windows full-on, run different apps in each screen, or allow one app to use both. Cellular, wi-fi, lotsa ports, 12+ hour battery life. Disable either screen depending.
Thickness and weight don't matter, for me.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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To help its customers ensure the open-source software they use doesn’t pose licensing or vulnerability risks, CAST Software this week announced a partnership with Software Heritage under which CAST will create a provenance index of the heritage’s repository. This code's father's father's father was a bug
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Thanks for that.
I've been missing out on sleep, and I needed a snooze.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Optical illusions, images that deceive the human eye, are a fascinating research topic, as studying them can provide valuable insight into human cognition and perception. Researchers at Flinders University, in Australia, have recently carried out a very interesting study using a computer vision model to predict the existence of optical illusions and the degree of their effect. Finally, the computers can decide once and for all if it's a rabbit or a duck
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If it walks like a rabbit and quacks like a duck, it is evidently a qubit. Just the killer application quantum computing has been waiting for.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh, now you've got me thinking of tasking an AI to recognise what is and what is not an optical illusion, and why!
Damn, I'll enjoy that, when I get around to working on it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new platform developed by MIT and Harvard University researchers ensures that web services adhere to users' preferences on how their data are stored and shared in the cloud. "I am Vinz, Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer. Volguus Zildrohar, Lord of the Sebouillia. Are you the Gatekeeper?"
It just needs everything to be re-written, and you still have to trust the devs to follow the policies you've accepted. Yeah, this is practical. 
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There is no data, only Zuul. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Typical MIT.
Basically, one of the lecturers has "discovered" proxy servers, and is going yampy with them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is open-source past its prime? Does it need to be replaced? Some companies say yes, while others say nonsense! Can we call them 'fauxpen source'?
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See what happens when there's one bad apple?
No, sorry, "apple" is an inappropriate word, in this context, because they're blameless.
Let's try again.
See what happens when there's psychopathic monster running a company like amazon?
Nailed it!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Today we are taking a look at a bit controversial one. It’s a possibility to provide default interface methods implementation. So... a base class?
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Quote: ... this feature will not work with .NET Framework! Only CoreCLR and Mono stack runtimes are going to receive these new updates.
Possibly the most important line from the article.
It's not yet clear whether this will be added to a future version of dNF, or whether dNF is now in "maintenance mode" and everyone's being dragged kicking and screaming nudged towards CoreCLR.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What a PFF (pointless f*ckin feature). Like you said... base class. Another (better) solution is to simply create another interface that ionherits the old interface:
public interface IOne
{
void Method1();
}
public interface ITwo : IOne
{
void Method2();
}
public class OldClass : IOne
{
public void Method1() {}
}
public class MyClass : ITwo
{
public void Method1() {}
public void Method2() {}
}
The dowwnstream classes can be modified as needed. There's absolutely no need for this kinda crap/fluff. Let core keep that crap.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Do that means we finially have somthing similiar to multiple inheritance in C#? or just the con side of it?
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Isn't that an old Java feature?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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It’s essentially a hub for launching recent documents, accessing the Office desktop apps, or simply finding the free web versions of Office. Because you need an easy way to switch from Word to Excel?
Did they run out of icons to update or something?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Did they run out of icons to update or something?
No... just another way to bring Clippy back to life
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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